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Are Unison Devices mechanical in nature? Someone on another thread called Rein Zwei a "machine". That mens that if we take X-Ray photos of them we will see little mechanical skeletons with muscle-like cables o-o?

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Well, the Unison Devices walk the line between living being and machine very carefully. On one hand, they are Devices, artificial programmable and upgradable constructs of magical energy. On the other, they can be "born" of a living mage's Linker Core (according to Hayate) and are capable of abstract and creative thinking. If I had to place them onto a scale of Organic-vs-Machine, they'd be about in the middle:

In addition to teaching, in the manga Nanoha also notes that all combat instructors share a love for flying. So it's a type of work she likes with the bonus of being among like-minded people.

Yeah, from what I gathered on the Japanese wiki, TSAB has regular instructors (教育隊) and the Tactical Instructors (戦技教導隊). The former seems to provide general training to Armed Forces, while the latter is explicitly part of the Air Force, and it's pretty obvious that the TIs are the highest non-administrative position for an aerial mage.

Yeah, from what I gathered on the Japanese wiki, TSAB has regular instructors (教育隊) and the Tactical Instructors (戦技教導隊). The former seems to provide general training to Armed Forces, while the latter is explicitly part of the Air Force, and it's pretty obvious that the TIs are the highest non-administrative position for an aerial mage.

Wow. Is there any elaboration on the two?

And what about Hayate? What was her reason for joining the Ground Forces?